I assume the story is a literal translation from nepali language. The stories that would once leave me spellbound through out the night in childhood are just funny, stupid and incredible baloneys yet it does bring aroma of nostalgia. Enjoy (time permitting)! ********************************************************************* An adventurous old man (From Folks of Mithila) ******************** There was an old man in a certain country. He had no issues. Since he had no issues, he used to wander here and there aimlessly. All the village folks used to love him. They always helped him and his family matters. His farming was near a forest. One year, since there was no rain, harvest was very poor. He became curious to know about the bad harvest. So he began to move aimlessly here and there and wanted to know its cause. He started begging for livelihood. While he was begging, he saw that a bull and a bullock were engaged in a fierce fight. He approached them and asked the cause of their fighting. They came before him and said "you go and ask the cause of our never ending fighting and tell us. The old man was very curious to know the causes of these two events, so he proceeded further. He was exhausted due to hunger and thirst. But he was not disappointed. He went near a Banyan tree and sat there to take rest. He narrated his curiosity to the tree. But the tree admonished him to go to the forest and ask the cause "why hasn't the wind blown for so many months here?" The old man was extremely generous and could not bear their pain and agreed with all to know the causes of the suffering. From there, he proceeded further and reached near a forest. There suddenly the fear of tigers, bears, rhinos and elephants overcame him. He found himself quite helpless because there were no humans. He could not get any help there. There there came a fierce storm miraculously and the old man was carried away towards the sea. He became quite desperate and almost dead because of fatigue and for not finding the cause of his bad harvest, the cause of the bull-bullock fighting and of the wind not blowing. He was in a fix where to go and to whom to ask these questions. How can an old man know such things? The old man had never cheated anyone in his life. So he was afraid of dying with the burden of having told a lie. While he was thinking all these things by chance he met a monkey. He became very pleased to see the monkey and narrated his whole story. the oldman also expressed his inner desire of knowing the cause of those things. The monkey told him " go and see Indra and ask him these questions, he might be able to answer these questions" contd..